Japan

This course examines basic microeconomic topics such as demand, supply, and markets in a manner that emphasizes their managerial relevance within today's business environment. Students are required to make presentations on the subjects covered in the textbook. Text: J. Brickley, C. Smith and J. Zimmerman, MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS AND ORGANIZATIONAL ARCHITECTURE.

This course focuses on the legal aspect of international human rights protection. Topics include the analysis of international human rights norms, domestic and international implementation of international human rights law, the UN and regional organization human rights protection systems with a particular emphasis on the complaint-filing system by individuals.

This class deals with various global issues ranging from politics to culture, using basic international relations theories. The course covers the current discussion on globalization and nationalism. Student contribution by way of asking questions and making comments is essential. Also, students are asked to give their own presentation on their preferred topics/current issues. Units: The regular version of this course is worth 3.0 UC quarter units. The Q version of this course is worth 4.0 UC quarter units. Students must submit a special study project form which outlines the requirements for the additional units. This is typically an additional paper graded by the instructor of the course.

This courses enables students to master elementary-level writing skills. Students write simple paragraphs using elementary kanji,vocabulary, and grammar. Students write essays and worksheets and write simple paragraphs using elementary kanji,vocabulary, and grammar.

This course presents Islam as a religion and provides understanding of the variety of Muslim societies. The first half of this course discusses the basics of Islam, focusing on "Six Articles of Faith", "Five Basic Acts", the Prophet Muhammad and the Qur'an. After that, the course deals with various Muslim societies, such as from the Middle East to Japan. Assessment: quizzes, final exam. Units: The regular version of this course is worth 3.0 UC quarter units. The Q version of this course is worth 4 or 4.5 UC quarter units. Students must submit a special study project form which outlines the requirements for the additional units. This is typically an additional paper graded by the instructor of the course.

This class examines the modern Japanese society's transitions throughout history and its relationship with the economy. The course closely looks at wars, poverty, riots, labor movements, and court cases within historical contexts, and questions why people took extreme measures at the time. In short, this is a Japanese history class while taking in account economical situations of the people, instead of looking simply at the economical history of Japan.

This course develops familiarity with standard econometric techniques that are useful for a broad range of applied research in economics. The topics include review of probability and statistics, linear regression with one regressor, linear regression with multiple regressors, hypothesis tests and confidence intervals, nonlinear regression functions, instrumental variables regressions and regression with panel data. In addition to building a theoretical base, the course also provides an introduction to data analysis using a package software. Assessment: final exam, two midterm exams, two assignments.

Firm economics is the study of the various aspects in a firm's economic activities that occur in the process of production, profit maximization, and cost-minimization. In particular, this course introduces theories and empirical results of the firm's main economic activities such as productivity enhance, physical investment, capacity utilization, technology development, R&D, and division of profit under the micro- and macro-economic surroundings. Thus, this course introduces the results of empirical economic analysis using the data of famous international firms. Together with short-run comparative analysis, this course introduces the dynamic analysis of firm in the long-run. Corporate governance is one of important issues to be included in this course.

The words global and civil society have become part of the contemporary political lexicon. This course considers the relations between these two terms and asks whether there exists something called global civil society. The course shows how and why the concept of civil society has become disconnected with the traditional borders of the territorial state. The course reviews the notion of civil society and its globalization process by considering the role of NGOs, dissident groups in repressive regimes, laborers, campaigners, terrorists and fundamentalists.